Courses SS26

In the interdisciplinary seminar “Cycle in Circles”, a pavilion for the Gartenschau Bad Urach 2027 is being designed in collaboration with the BuE and dos professorships and structural engineering students.

In the project “My City Lounge @Kronenplatz”, we will develop strategies to improve the comfort and the quality of stay as an interdisciplinary Design-Build collaboration between Design of Structures (dos), the Institut für Regionalwissenschaft (IfR), and the South German Climate Office at KIT. We will explore the design of temporary shading systems, introduce green urban furniture, and reconfigure the space to significantly enhance its usability and comfort.

Digital Skins offers an in-depth exploration of digital tools and computational strategies for the geometric processing and patterning of surfaces. The seminar will delve into the use of computational tools through scripts and definitions that will be developed during the course to manipulate mesh and NURBS objects by creating bespoke structural and ornamental patterns. 

The Building & Structure seminar examines the functional and effective modes of structural design in more detail. Therefore, the use and the limitations of materials like timber, steel, concrete, and clay will be analysed in detail.

The basic and general principles of the behaviour of building materials and the load carrying behaviour are taught to which buildings are exposed and which they must withstand. Basic knowledge of mathematics and physics is applied to the recording and description of load transfer in building structures.